Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Tor Browser Bundle is an internet browser based on Mozilla Firefox configured to protect the users’ anonimity, via Tor and Vidalia. The bundle also includes 3 Firefox extensions: Torbutton, NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere.

The Tor Browser anonymizes the traffic and encrypts everything everything in the Tor network. Via the HTTPS-Everywhere extension, it also encrypts the traffic between the Tor network and the final destination.

The latest version available is Tor Browser Bundle 4.0.6, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:

Update Firefox to 31.6.0esr

Update meek to 0.16

Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1m

For more information about this release, see this article. Also, the full changelog is here.

Because it is available via PPA, installing Tor Browser 4.0.6 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the tor-browser package. Like this: